MEANS OF TRANSPORT

The means of transport are characteristic and I are denominati"jeepney"
which are the more used by the Philippine ones

They are half of transport of which the Philippine ones go fierce:
The Jeppney or Jeep survived to the second war world
and you transform without setting limits of imagination to the them owners.

The term "Jeppney" it is born from the fusion of two words
American: "Jeep", the strong Willys Jeep employed by the
American troops during the war, and "Jitney", that in "slang"
it points out a mean of very economic transport.

To the origin of the "Jeppney", there are therefore the spartanes auto,
fuoristrada used by the Americans on all the fronts, and
then also on that of Philippines.

When the war ended with the defeat of Japan thousand,
of Jeeps remained to rust in Philippines.
And so it was really that great quantity of residual to
to revolutionize shortly time the local industry of the transport
of people.

You appreciate for theirs and you purchase for few money the Jeeps,
you abandon from the Americans they began to be used by the
Philippine to earn him to live.

Dapprincipios were just as they are seen in the films: everybody
discoveries, with a passenger close to the driver and four
behind (two on the seat and two on the strapuntinis side places
the one in front of the other).

Today, any Jeepney preserves instead, anymore this aspect.
At the end of a long process of conversionedelle Jeep in
Lasted Jeepney many decades, of the around 250.000 vehicles of
this type in circulation in the Philippines, is a lot
probable that one doesn't even contain to his/her inside a solo
piece of the original Jeeps (what it would have around
sixty years!!!).

Of the structure of departure they survive a part of the loom
and some element of carozzeria.

The procedure of transformation is simple: it divides him in two
(in transversal sense) a Jeep and the two halves connect him with
longerons and panels so that to make to grow length and
width of the mean.

To the all a roof is added for mending from the pioggio and
from the sun the passengers.

Once effected additions and amplifications, the vehicle that
it results it is able of it to transport not less than six people,
but in certain versions, even eleven, more diciottoe!.

The motors that move these small buses, are as for for
more of modern production, Japanese or German, while
the preparation of the means remains submitted, for the most part to
small mechanical shops and body shop.

All the attempts to start a real production of it in
series has given in fact I hesitates insoddisfaciente, because any
owner of Jeepney (what the same person is always not
what a guide) rinuncerebbe never to the inclined characterization
proper of these means.

To personalize the proper Jeepney with innumerable objects and
decorations it makes him/it a real visit ticket,
over that an authentic itinerant show, and sometimes
even a small work of popular art.

The quantity of cromature and assistant objects, the plethora of
lighthouses and colored lights, the minute paintings, and he/she anchors tendon,
you imagine religious, written of every kind they make some Jeepneys
of the vehicles without equal.
They are become by now not by chance object of collezionismo that
he/she sees to depart the most beautiful Jeepneys for the various countries of the world.